• Not all food is created equal….

    A good friend has written an article on food production that we think deserves wider dissemination than we offer here…..but we’ll do our bit. Organizations such as Weston A. Price are stout advocates of what is termed “nutrient dense food”.  It’s a phrase that is beginning to find its way into popular literature and Bill Roberts, of 12 Stones Grassland Beef, offers his take on it below.  We think he’s right and spend a good deal of money each year trying to improve the mineralization of our soil.  We also spend about 10 times what the average farmer does on natural, organic mineral supplements for our cows. America’s soils were…

  • First they came for the raw milk farmer…

    …and eventually it will be locally-grown meat.  (In fact, it’s already started.) The unholy alliance of Industrial Agriculture and Big Government are engaged in a campaign of harassment and intimidation targeting the small farmer who sells his products directly to the consumer.  It’s all under the guise of protecting consumer health, but in fact the real danger to the consumer is that food in the fancy wrapping in the supermarket. This isn’t political, though Michelle is the only one closer to the President than Big Ag’s lobbyists.  But this campaign to discourage local food production has gone on through several Republican and Democrat administrations.  It seems to be intensifying now…